Cinémas hors circuits

La Famille Digitale

La Famille Digitale is a collective of documentary filmmakers and an independent, nonprofit audiovisual and multimedia production company and publishing house. LFD realizes, edits, spreads and distributes audiovisual works realized outside industrial ways.Documentaries, experimental films, animations, or still sonorous stories, beyond the kinds, LFD is focused on free writings and free looks.LFD believes that these works are many opportunities to put and to propose a critical, long-term and forward-looking glance on the contemporary time.By means of a screen, of a stream, of an optical support, LFD is always looking for the right way to make easier the meeting between the works and the public.LFD relies on informal networking and collective work, as source of alternatives to the dead ends of the traditional circuits of broadcasting and of distribution.If you are an independent artist, screener or distributor, of if you simply feel close to our way of mind, come and participate to this project! La Famille Digitale keeps looking for new collaborations and experiences to share.

Sonia is the mother of 15 children. With them and her husband, they live in a squalid shack, that no way but mud connects outside. The director spent one year in this family, and, far beyond the Rom community and of a vision of a family in destitution and a reducing father, she questions the force of the family tie and the state of woman, while speaking with Sona, by collecting her word whispered during the nights.

RIP IN PIECES AMERICA is an uncensored proclamation from an invisible USA.Dominic Gagnon turns no blind eye in his ultra-intense collage film which consists entirely of more or less anonymous webcam clips that due to their controversial or explicit nature have been flagged and meanwhile removed from video sites such as YouTube. Well-formulated conspiracy theorists, bad-tempered grass-roots activists and religious arms fanatics, who use the webcam as both a means to preach and to confess, have all been filtered by the censor, but stored by Gagnon, who neither comments nor embarks on any finger-pointing. For who decides what can be thought and said? And what is paranoia, if you know that you're right? RIP is an uncensored, in-your-face assault on political correctness and on most American institutions. But it also has a bizarre performative element that develop in pure Hollywood fashion.

"April 22nd, 2007. the presidential elections in France took place. 15 days later the identity of the new political officials of the country were revealed. We had decided to use this date as a starting point with a documentary series to reflect on politics. The presidential elections were our pretext to approach, from a plural point of view, all the facets which politics can cover in the life of people, since “the simple” gesture to vote until more intimate, complex or radical postures. 100jours is an approach of politics through 100 short documentary films (maximum 5 minutes), which were distributed (broadcasted) the 100 previous days the end result of the french presidential elections. It is about a collective project in which several directors are brought to create documentary on people that they chose for the personal link they maintain with politics, in her broadest direction."

La Famille Digitale #1 is the first issue of a review, to appear irregularly, dedicated to independent documentary cinema. Its main focus is cinema produced outside of the industrial circuits – and, by consequence, not often seen. LFD #1 has been developed for two formats – DVD and internet. In this issue, three Themes and 13 films to exercise your eyes